Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

Summary/Objective:

The Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) serves as a critical team member reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The core objective of this key role lies in influencing company-wide strategic growth decisions and maximizing profitability through thorough financial analysis and planning. This position aims to leverage financial insights to aid the executive team in decision making, offering the opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the company's financial direction. The Director of FP&A will ensure quality, accuracy, and timely delivery of financial insights, thereby driving the overall performance of the company.

Essential Functions:

• Lead and manage the FP&A function for the whole company, including all areas of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis.
• Coordinate and develop annual operating budgets, quarterly financial forecasts, and the company's long-term financial projections.
• Direct and oversee the analysis of financial results to determine accuracy and completeness of information, ensuring all reporting met company standards and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct sophisticated business and financial analyses to identify opportunities for cost control, revenue generation, and process improvement.
• Utilize advanced data visualization tools and data modeling techniques to translate complex data into an understandable dashboard for strategic decision making.
• Develop and maintain financial models to support valuation, planning, and forecasting while ensuring their integrity and accuracy.
• Possess the technical skills necessary to conduct significant data mining and transforming raw data into useful information.
• Conduct regular ad hoc KPI reporting to track financial and operational performance, presenting results directly to CFO and other key stakeholders.
• Evaluate asset utilization and optimize rental equipment assets to improve profitability and efficiency.
• Implement new tools and systems to improve the level of detail, efficiency, and effectiveness of reporting.
• Regularly balance the needs of the business with the maintenance of the appropriate level of controls, compliance, and risk management.
• Translate financial data and metrics into clear business narratives, ensuring all stakeholders understand not only the company's financial performance but also the underlying business trends and probable impact on future performance.
• Present financial insights, strategic recommendations, risks and opportunities to the Executive team.
• Oversee capital expenditure proposals and provide decision support analysis to management.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders across the organization to optimize financial and operational performance.

Educational Requirements/Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Business Administration or similar field. An MBA or relevant advanced degree would be a plus.
• Extensive experience in a senior financial management role from an equipment rental or related industry.
• Strong expertise in financial reporting, data analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex financial information in an understandable manner to all levels within the organization.
• Ability to manage and provide direction to subordinates, including regular progress reviews and plans for improvement.
• Necessary skills in order to interface with all levels of management and outside professionals.
• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, business and personal taxation, business law, along with experience in a wide variety of business issues.
• The ability to multi-task and manage constantly changing priorities.
• High level of integrity and dependability, with a strong sense of urgency and focus on results.
• Written business communication skills are essential.
• Strong computer skills, mainly with the Microsoft suite of products, and software applicable to the equipment or construction industry.

Bigge provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, military or veteran status.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.